Chapter 2

48 HOURS… ARGH!!!!

General Jack O'Neill had just found out that the President of the United States was coming to the SGC on a Two-day visit. To say that he was a little nervous was saying something. He had 48 hours to get the place in some resemblance of working order and he was panicking. Currently he was pacing his office waiting for Daniel to show up and talk him through what the hell he was going to do. It was days like these that he hated being in charge. Give him a Gould mother ship any day.

Daniel walked calmly in head down looking at a clipboard and sat down.

"So Danny Boy, what you got there?" Jack asked trying to see over the top of the clipboard.

"Huh? Oh sorry it the President's itinerary" he said and handed it over to the General.

Jack took a look at it and quickly deciding that it was too much to look at and handed it back to Daniel. "I really hate this part of the job" he said verbally expressing what he had been thinking moments before Daniel had entered.

Daniel chose to ignore what he said. "So the president will arrive first thing Wednesday morning and will debrief with you first and then tour the base for the rest of the day. Then Thursday he will take a trip through the gate to the alpha site spend a few hours there and then meet with us again before heading back to Washington."

"The Alpha site"

"Yep, he wants to experience gate travel."

"Really!?!" Jack asked a little surprised his mind wondering as to why the President would want to do that.

"Jack, are you going to be ok with all this. It isn't exactly your strong point."

Before Jack could answer Sam came in. "I have briefed the troops on the president's arrival and everyone is pitching in to get the place in top shape." She said before bitting her lip and glancing at Daniel. Clearly she had similar concerns as Daniel had about how Jack was going to handle all this.

"Great" Jack said trying to sound confident but failing miserably.

Daniel just shrugged at Sam.

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Cassie was sitting in the lab trying to translate a text that Daniel had collected last time he was off world. It was proving to be quite challenging. She had been at it for hours and was getting nowhere. She decided that it was time for coffee so she headed out to the mess. Passing by Jack's office she popped her head in to see if he was there. He was sitting at his desk alone with his head in his hand.

Uh oh!

She tapped lightly on the door so not to startle him and he popped his head up to see who was there.

"Are you ok?" She questioned moving into the office further.

He looked up miserably and said "The president is coming." his head flopped back down.

"Oh dear!" she said without thinking.

"Thanks!" he shot back sarcastically.

Woops!

"You know what I mean. Look the president wouldn't have even given you this job if he didn't strongly believe that you could do it. From what Daniel's said he is just curious as to what goes on around her on a day to day basis. You need to stop stressing!"

He smiled at her in thanks for the confidence. "Thanks."

"You're welcome. I do believe my work here is done." She said cheekily "now I need coffee want to come with?"

"Sure why not."

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Wednesday came and Jack looked positively ill. Cassie ran into him in the hall as fidgeted with his dress uniform, he looked positively uncomfortable and whiter than a ghost.

Daniel even, was standing next to him, seemed a bit unnerved.

"Guys you need to calm down. Everything is going to be fine." She tried to reassure them as she slapped Jack's hand away from his tie and straightened it for him.

Sam came up to them then in full dress uniform. "Sir, the presidential party have just arrived at the surface."

"Thanks Carter."

"That's my queue to make myself gone. Good luck guys.... And Jack, Breathe." said Cassie.

With that she made her way back to the lab. She had plenty of work to keep her occupied until she met the president tomorrow afternoon at the briefing with the rest of SG-1.